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Bruce Banner stayed rather Bruce Bannerish in the last instalment of Avengers (bar the opening scene against Thanos, sure), and now one keen punter of the franchise has come up with perhaps the most wholesome theory as to why he never morphed back into The Hulk for the entirety of the film.

Believe us when we say it really is very, very wholesome, when one fan this week came up with the theory that Bruce’s just too happy to be Hulk.

Yep, that’s it – Bruce Banner doesn’t have the ability to get angry enough these days to turn into the enraged giant and, you know what, that’s kinda sweet.

Bruce is just…well, Bruce these days (Picture: Marvel)

Perhaps the sweetest thing to come out of the franchise, you think?

Reddit user u/unionjunk put forth the notion this week, which has definitely inspired the community to band together with their own thoughts on the premise.

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‘In the first Avengers movie, Bruce says his secret is that he’s always angry, which is how he can turn into the Hulk on command,’ they began on Monday.

‘Since then, he’s been part of this amazing group of people who deeply care for him, he’s actually had a conversation with Romanov about settling down, and even on Sakaar when he stopped being the Hulk, you could see he was enjoying his time hanging out with Thor and the others (and if you remember back on Asgard, Bruce jumped out of the ship expecting to turn into the Hulk and landed on his face on the bifrost bridge).

‘Most importantly, he hasn’t had to live his life constantly looking over his shoulder since Romanov came to get him in India.

‘So basically, Bruce Banner was unable to bring out the Hulk in Infinity War because he’s been a lot happier/content lately than he was when he met the Avengers.’

1, 2, 3…aww!

One did call his bluff, as they replied: ‘He did help them in Infinity War though. His first fight with Thanos.’

Yeah there was that. However, a bigger idea trumped the lot of them – you see, we already know why we didn’t see Hulk again.

One fan threw a spanner in the works then they reminded us all the Russo Brothers have said Hulk was going bye bye because he’s sick of Bruce only using him to fight – after it was first thought perhaps Hulky didn’t want to play because he was ‘scared of Thanos’.

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‘This was an interesting journey we went on with Banner, trying to decide how we move him forward in the Marvel Universe,’ Russo said last year.

He added that he and his brother Anthony Russo wanted to explore why ‘the Hulk was no longer interested in solving those problems for Banner’ as the latter ‘typically uses the Hulk to solve crisis situations’.

‘People have speculated whether there was some fear on the Hulk’s part about having to face Thanos again,’ Russo said. ‘But I think ultimately what it is is that he’s tired of playing hero to Bruce Banner.’

We can see his annoyance. He’s human, too (sort of).

While it’s a sweet theory and all that, guess our money is still on the Russo Bros’ explanation.

Still, this reply sums up our thoughts perfectly: ‘alf the universe will die if thanos gets all the stones but he’s “too happy” to come out and fight?’

Come on Hulk.

Avengers: Endgame is in cinemas 26 April.

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